Fifteen years after two brothers terrorized the community of Wichita, Kan., in a gruesome crime spree, their death penalty case has made it to the Supreme Court. Last week, the court listened to two hours of oral arguments in a case that is

as much about divisions on the court as it is about the facts of the case.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer have been vocal opponents of capital punishment. In their view, no set of circumstances, no killing, no matter how cruel or cold-blooded, justifies the state taking a life.

Others on the Supreme Court, such as Justice Antonin Scalia, see it as justice for the worst of the worst criminals among us. Scalia read off the numerous crimes, ones that Justice Samuel Alito said were the worst he’d heard in his 10 years at the Supreme Court.

Convicted of capital murder for the December 15, 2000 murders of Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Heather Muller and Aaron Sander and of first-degree murder (non-capital) for killing Ann Walenta four days before the quadruple murder.

A Summit County jury has found Kenan Ivery guilty of aggravated murder in last year’s shooting death of an off-duty Akron police officer at Papa Don’s Pub.

Justin Winebrenner, 32, died in November about 30 minutes after being shot twice in the torso while trying to defuse a tense situation at the East Market Street nightspot.

Ivery, 36, was convicted of 14 of 15 charges in his capital murder indictment. He was found not guilty of tampering with evidence.

With the aggravated murder conviction, Ivery could now face the death penalty when the sentencing phase of his trial begins. Common Pleas Judge Alison McCarty instructed the same panel that returned the guilty verdicts to report to the courthouse

The mother of a South Carolina murder victim was facing the man accused of killing her son.

The accused killer smiled as she recounted her loss, before telling her, in court, “Shut the f— up.”

Jamal Green, who turned 18 last week, is among four people charged in connection with the April 20 killing of 43-year-old Eric Brantley in North Charleston, S.C.

As the Charleston Post and Courier reported, Brantley’s mother, Suzanne Sentner, attended Monday’s bond hearing for Green, who faces charges of armed robbery and murder, and she read a statement directed at Green.

The undocumented immigrant who fatally stabbed a 25-year-old woman last year in Connecticut wouldn’t have still been in the country if immigration officials had done a better job, according to a damning watchdog report released this month.

Before fatally stabbing Casey Chadwick in June 2015, Jean Jacques had already served time for attempted murder — but despite his violent past, immigration officials still released him into the U.S. instead of returning him to his native Haiti.

The three Democratic lawmakers who requested the inquiry called the findings “alarming.”

One of the problems cited was the massive caseloads for officers supervising immigrants who — like Jacques — can’t be successfully deported.

“The caseloads of Deportation Officers in the field make personalized follow-up with the aliens under their supervision functionally impossible,” the report said.

In the Newark enforcement office, there are just three to four deportation officers managing 37,000 immigrants.

SAN ANTONIO - Another suspect has been arrested in the shooting death of a convenience store clerk.

Law enforcement took 18 year-old D'Anthony Carter into custody and he's now in the Bexar County jail charged with capital murder.

An arrest affidavit says teachers at Stevens High School recognized Carter in a photo released to media by San Antonio police after Diamond Food Mart clerk Zachary Benavidez was shot and killed during a robbery June 7.

Teachers identified Carter from the photos, and police been searching for him since.

They also arrested 18 year-old Olanda Taylor June 11 and also charged him with capital murder in Benavidez' death.

The arrest affidavit says Taylor identified Carter as the other person who robbed the store and shot Benavides.